Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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"Newt's masterpiece had been an approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ever since its publication and must take a substantial amount of credit for our students' consistently high results in Care of Magical Creatures examinations — yet it is not a book to be confined to the classroom. No wizarding household is complete without a copy of Fantastic Beasts, well thumbed by the generations who have riffled its pages in search of the best way to rid the lawn of Horklumps, interpret the mournful cries of the Augurey, or cure their pet Puffskein of drinking out of the toilet."

Behind the scenes

Some creatures are missing from the book. There is no entry on cockatrices, hydras, or three-headed dogs. Newt Scamander never intended the book to be a complete guide of all magical creatures, but an introduction to the variety of Magizoology.